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tf e vbsc ts d / ice/ con ;joi,' slop loo' )04 Or luiri rois' e ii EV f oll 0 !ail CO icy! near )vin Os 01h r eM ttic v il, 4 1 0 1 i2Y 0 0 oo r , ivo PRIVATE AND AtTHENTIC COIIII:ESPONDEXCE r Azttss MAttch seems certain that the Bank of France will undergo a nees, organization. I have made the enquiries on the sthject. The insolence with which LAFITTE, elle Governor, Las treated Government whenever it 'Wanted any assistance, and the usurious terms dernandet: by the flank of Government, even with ample security in ha nd, has determined the latter to re-organize the sank, that at least it shall not find an enemy wh ere it was entitled to find support, and not sub- Alit to the insolence of those it has enriched by the exclusive privileges it has granted them. M. LAFlrre has converted the Bank into a political e ngine to thwart every measure of Government, Which th e l atter seems determined to suffer no ti ger. It may not be amiss here to state to your headers who M. LAFITTE is, and what ke was. I le enter e d , as I understand, the Banking-Louse 15f • PERREGAUX as an under clerk, at 600 francs c 26 1.) per a nnum ; l o i s goo d natura l a bili t i es, h i s ' l and -writing, and excellent conduct, soon g 1 a , 14 . 4 loin ] the esteem of his master, till at length 1 ) . Wa s tak en i nto par t ners hi p ; at t hi s t i me the . i i: use niPe RREGAUX . had an opportunity of g a i n i ng irl tnen se sums ; the great number o f E m i grat i ons , ' a 111.4 . e vast fortunes the parties possessed, fell in ,' , 4 4e0 measure into their hands. They a l one , iv ! ri ng the war, bad the privilege of an intercourse )441' tegland. PRREFGAUX, rich and amorous i n t/h i age, left Abe management of the Bank to LArrtre, iWiio soon became his master's ' t -a "er, till at leneceven the name of PERRE i:htIX is no longer thought necessary. M. LAFITTE ecanle (I,ve rn ,,r of the Ba't-A. of France, as well tlihtinK the first private Banker iso Europe, and at la st Election he was elected for the Depart !itt of the S e i ne (Paris) : whether it be'teorn gra iitittl - or r from prinLipl, I know not, but M. Le'FITTIS ti lts clos e to his old tri. lids, who are now distin lailished by the name of Independents, and On the e Election, he exerted all the influence of sveelth f 4 .° Procur e the election of other members hostile to G overnment ; and, though he made a great llcti se about the obese of the laws by Government, yet' t o carry his ends, h e hesitated 110 t to pia= ths se a house in M. NIANUEL'S name, to give him ; but net sUcceeditig, he lest no tents in reselling it, and getting back the money. li no his own pocket. :11 ANUEL is an advocate of gr eat talent, and he writes•the speeches, as it is sai d, Of M. LAFITTE, the Duke tile BROGLIE, and s ever a l of the independent orators. We under t=itti he has speeches for every question ready, c."1.4 0d dried, and the Members have only to cho ose which they will make their own. This s hri n „ s elm not fame, but money, and that is ‘vhat he wants.-1;rom this short sketch it will be teen, that the Government cannot log suffer t he hostile elferts of such a man as M. LAFITTE ; : it the saute ti me th a t it ena bl e s hirri to gain a co . l "sal fortrine, it has the means of proving to hint t hat he cannot do this with impunity, and none titn doubt its right to exert them. It is scarcely possible to conceive the pleasure " 11 the satisfaction the Law on the Recruiting of the Army has given to all classes of the people.— it replaces France in the position of a great but 141 eific Power, able to protect her own indepen 4"ee, and causing, in case of need, the inde ,.NnAlettee of others to be respected. E n:dand talks of str eng th e ni ng th e L ow C oon - Irirs Neßinsißinsi France. I greatly doubt the policy ' ll l l t he measure. These fortifications are to be in irl gittm ; now, Belgium detests the yoke o '' u llend, and the first favourable moment wil• i t ' e lt to unite itself with France ; consequent '. /, We are paying for these fortifications, which ew l l' f a ll o f themselves into t h e hands of the N ."er against w hich we i n t en d, d t h em as a ban. i t rier„ A s to the policy of assisting Holland, i s more than doubtf u l toe other h.l u iland is or weld(' be our Rive', as a Maritime 41 10 Commercial Power. She cannot s u b s i st nit e produc e o f he r so il, a nd moat have COnirt . “•rC e e li te qUi conic H e r Alliance w i t h Russ ia is I'oureole to her, for s h e has thrown he rse l f int , o l e hands of Russia, whose deep designs soon l Ope themselves ; toese teewers milted nlay i t — ' ? e Eng land m uc h tr o ubl e . Th e E mperor o f master as he is of Finland and Poland, t "d the Allv,sVlio can command Prussi a an d t h e L ow n ontries, c an , w hen ever lien leasesonarch straight In, the F renc h Frontier, without imp e d iment t r i theref ore , %A - e con.ttuct b a rri er! , t h ey oug h t obe against the colossal power of Russia, from >n eh Europe has eery thing to fear, and there is :harri er t h at can b e appose d against her With 41- eet but France. Thi s t h e E mperor is well "s'ate. o f, therefore he is assiduous to cultivate a pod understanding with France, to have h er on 1, 1 '3 side ' • be tenders her every good (office, and "comes the mediator between her and England Il nd Prussia. Let England look to this It of the highest importance for her to con !tact the closest alliance with France, and win 'ler friendship. She is the only efficient Ally we suet ever have in c ise of another war, which it, pee - baps, nearer et hand than is suspected. We received this disy two Letters froth our Correpondent et Pa r i s , one dated the 12th instant, dud the other the 15th. As we have not room fur the insertion Of loath tins U\v and as the latter is more in nueeiatetyiaterestin g , we skill defer A the other till to-utereew• SPORTING IN'FELLIGENCE. TETE GREAT FOOT RACES. No matches since the days of Captain Barclay's prowess hare excited so Much interest as those fined for to-morrow (Wednesday, between the cel e b ra t e d R u i ner and Oltl To»z (15 miles), and Brazier and Appleton (4 miles), for 100-gui neas each race. I , .:r. r 3kekson, who was left to name the ground, fixed on the pl:IcV yesterday by consent of the parties. The ground named is Maidenhead Thicket, Berke, over two miles. Thousands are depending upon the event, as the four men are decidedly the tautest in England at their matchcs.--. Bettin4, 5 to 4 on Old Torn, andsto 4 on Appleton; 8 to 1 betted against naming two winners, and 4 to i that Rainer and Brazier do nut both win, STATEMENT OF THE ODDS ON THE DERBY, OAKS, &c. —MARCH DERBY. Taken-10 to 1 agst c. by Waxy, out of Miltonia. , Taken-10 to 1 agst c. by Orville, out of Allegretto. 12 to 1 ar.st Dictator, out of Hornby Lass. 13 to I agst c. by Waxy, ont of itingtan. 13 to 1 apt Brother to Crecy. 13 to 1 agst c. by Seymour, out of -Rosa!lila. OAKS. Taken— 5 to 1 a,tst Lou, by Waxy. to 1 against any other. • KIDDLEsWOt4TH STAKES. Taken— 6 to 1 apt c. by Waxy, out of Ringtail. l'aken— 6 to I agst Harraton, out of Lancashire Witch. Taken— 7 to 1 agst Dictator, out of Horuby Lass. 7 to I agst Brother to Crecy. 10 to 1 agst Sister to Nectar. THE HORRID MURDERS AT GREENWICH Yesterday an examination took place before W. SMITH, Esq. Colonel FOREMAN, and a number of Alagistrates for the county of Kent, at the office at Greenwich, when the several witnesses were examined, charging William liazeldon on suspicion heing accessory to the murder of Mr. George Bird and Mrs. Mary Simmons, and Charles Hussey (not yet in custody), with being the actual perpe trator of the said murders. The business of the town was in a great mea sure suspended, hundreds of persons followed• the prisoner from the cage to the Magistrates' Office, and numbers of respectable • persons were unable to gain admittance. The town was not in greater agitation on the day the murders were discovered. In the course of the examination, Mrs. Godwin,. the sister of Hussey, the supposed murderer, de posed that he came to her husband's house at Peekham soon after the murder was committed, abut left a box there which he never took away. She suspected all was not right, and accordingly opened the hot, is which she found three watches, a silver ladle, some silver spoons, and a quantity of linen and .other articles, which she believed was the property stolen from Mr. Bird's house. She took the property down to Green wich, where they had been regularly identified by the so, of the murdered Mr. Bird as the property of the deceased. • The brother of litmey, the supposed murderer, has give!' stuilar evidence ; as has also another relative (Mr Goddard, near Deptford) in whose house Hoss.i left a trunk, containing sotne more of the articles stolen from the house of the de ceased. A - washerwotnan proved the linen found in the trunks to have heionge,l to Mr. Bird. It was also proved that at both the above houses Hussey, by his behaviour, manifested every symptom of guilt. —Ail his relatives think he weal to Dorsetshire, where his wife lives with her friends. A man of the riame of Hazelton, who is in cus tody, charged wiilt being 811 accomplice, on being questioned by the Alagistrate, said :—I acknow• ledge that I was with Ilussey on the Saturday; I drank with hint at the Tyger's Head, and after wards we went to the Ship and Billet, on the Woolwich roal, where we parted. and I went to my falter's, where I slept that night. I hope you will take bait for my appearance, as 1 aru as innocent of the charge as the child unborn. Magistrate.—l -cannot take bail at present.— There is such evidence against you as warrants me to detain you for the present Ido not say you were concerned in the murders, but you were the last person *%itti the mats who, I ant satisfied, oid commit the murders : he probably will be in custody in the coarse of to-toot row (this day), and circumstances then may occur that will cause we to hold you to bail. Prisuner.—l wish he may be taken to-night, for-the cage is a shocking place to be confined in. Magistrate.—lf you arc innocent, this will be. a warning to you (as I hope it kill be to others), nut to keep had company. At present you must be committed for re-rxaminatii,n on a future day, There are more than 20 officers in pursuit of Hussey; there is little doubt but he will he taken and very sotto. Officers were dispatched to search the Indianien now lying in the River, at Wool wich, Greenwich ; &c. Lavender is gone down to a relation's of Hussey's ; Vickery is gone in an her direction ; Adkins set off on Sunday morning to B,:rton, near Bridport, in Dorsetshire, as it is supposed that Hussey went to see his wife when he left Peckham on Tuesday last. The Magi strates are in hourly expectation of hearing of his being in custody. THE YOUNG MAN SHOT BY HIS FATHER. Cottomates INQUEST.---Yesterday evening an lot - pest was held itt eke Bo a rd Roo m o f St Thomas's hospital, before T. SHELTON, Esq. Coroner, on the body tt John Fawcett, age d 19, whose death was caused by a pistol shot wound in the side, intlicted by his own father. The Jury being impanneled and sworn, they repaired to vie w the body, and on their return, they proceed ed to IMO the evidence, which was to the sante purport as that given ut Union Hall. At the conclusion of the evidence, the Coroner, at great length, surumed Hp, and &telt chiefly on points of law material to the case ; he said, that the latv would not justify a man who repaired to a htoise with an intent►t>n to murder one man, and by mistake killed another. The Jury retired to a separate room, and after about half an hour's deliberation, returned a Verdict of " fld Murder against John Fawcett, sen." and the Lorimer bound over the witnesses to prosecute, PAR LTA MENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDA Y , MARctr 16. . . . . The Indemnity Bill was brought_ up bs , Mr. Brogden and other Members of the House of Commons, returned agreed fo. , . . The Greenland Fishery Oaths -WI!, the Bath Gas Light Bill, the Exeter Gaol Bill, a local and A private Bill, were brought up from die House of Commons by Mr. Brogden, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Courtenay, Sir B Wu,. Guise, and other Mem bers, and read a fits! ,time., The Roy4l Marine 111utiny Bill was read a third time And pasqed. The Scots Aqua Vita Licenses Bill pas • e►l through a Committee, and was reported without Amendment. • Mr. Alcock, from the Treasury, presented Ac counts of the Net Produce of the Revenue, and of Offices granted in Reversion in Scotland and Ire land. Mr. Winchester, from.the Post-Office, an Account of Arrears and Balance's in the Hands of Deputy Postmasters General; and Mr. Higham, from the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, au Account of the Stock pur-' chased by arm on each Transfer Day, since the commencement of the year. --Ordered to lie up on the table. The Reversion Account was subsequently or dered to be printed, upon the motion of the Eari Gaosvesort, who intimated his intention of bringing forward, on a future day, a proposition reispect bit Grant. Reversion. The Earl of SHARTEsfltinv t..id Upon flip .r,hip an Account of persons arrested and detained since January last, moved for on a former day, which was.subsecrently, on the motion of Lord Hol land, ordered to be printed. The Matgnis of DOWNSHIRE .moved for the Correspondence between the First Commissioner of the Revenue and the Churchwardens and Clergy of the Parishes in Ire'slid, upon the subject of a Commutatio❑ of the Window 'fax ; which was Ilis Lordship then presented Petitions from Dublin and Belfast, against the Continuance of the Window Tax ; and stated that previous to the Union, a pledge had been given by the then Chan cellor of the Exchequer in the Irish Parliament, that the Window Tax should only be continued during the War. The Petitions .were ordered to lie upon the :Able. • '1 he Earl of ROSSLYN gave notice of his inten tion to move the second reading of the Bath Gas light Bill to-morrow. Adjourned till to-morrow (this day). HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Winchester, from :be Post-Otfice, presented certain Papers connected with that Department.—Ordered to he on the table. Petitions against the Leather Tax were presented from Bo roughln idge and Horneastle.—Ordered to lie on the table. Lord LASCELLES presented a petition from the retail Shopkeepers of Halifax,eomplaining of injury arising to trade from Urilicence(' Hawkers; and against the mode of assessment of thy Local Taxes. Sir E. BRYDGES brought in the Copyright Bill. It was cad a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the 10111 of April next. Mr. Alderman WOOD brought in the Bill for erecting a Bridge across the Thames at Ratcliffe. Having done his i;tit)i thus tar by the Bill, hr express e d hi s d e t erm i nat i on to opposei its further progress in every stage. When th e B r id ge at( Ir.....PkfriArs was built, a Colli peusat ion to the amount of i3,010V was given to that most useful body the 'it atermen on the Ri ver. No compensation Was now intended, and' that, he hoped, would be considered a vital objection to its adoption, interfering, as it did, with the interests of, a holly of torn who had already contributed so essentially to the naval 'dos fence of the couotry.—The Bill was read a first time. MR. Pirt ESTON Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a petition from an Thomas Preston, well known to the House, from being one of the persons Acquitted of High Treason. It alleged his frequent arrests and detention. That during his imPri sontrent a person called Castles, of universal notoriety, made to his (Preston's) daughter a false representation, by which he gut ilosses,:dori of petitioner's furniture. He prayed that Ministers might he impeached, and that he himself should be indemnified for his sufferings.—The petition was ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Mr. JOHN SMITH brought up thelteport of the Bankrupt Laws Committee.—Ordered to be printed. Lord A. HAMILTON presented a petition front The Uni versity of filasgow against any alteration in the Laws respect ing Copyright.—Ordered to lie on the table. NAVY ESTIMATES. Sir G. WARR6NDER, moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Com mittee of Supply, and that the Navy and Trans port Estimates be referred to the same Committee. The House baying proceeded into Committee, Sir GEORGE WARRENDER said, that the observa tions which he should have the honour to submit to the Committee would occupy but a very nar row space. The subject of the Naval Expendi ture had for some years past been brought before the consideration of Parliament in a shape so dis tinct as to render any detailed statement al together unnecessary. lucked the Reports for the two last years of the Committee of Finance and Public Expenditure were best calculated to give the fullest and clearest information. Dur ing the war an important change had beets effect ed in that branch at the public service. The con tracts in the merchants' yards had been abandon ed, so that the whole ship-boilding was brought under the eye of the Government. Such a change had not alone been productive of great economy, but a better description of vessels were built. An other large branch of -the public expeoditure, and which, from the extent to which, from circum stances, it had been carried, wa, the cause of an increase in the present estimates, referred to the works carried on in the naval yards. For a de tailed elocidation of these branches, he begged to refer the Committee to the eighth Report of the Finance Committee, now oo the table of the House, and to the Report of the aide engineer, Mr. Rennie, which also accompanied that Re port. The Committee were aware, from the na- tore of all works cat tied on immediately near the sea, it was most desirable to complete them as soon as possible. Besides . the mat cads aml la bour in a time of peace were so much cheaper, that though a large situ, might, in one or - t We years, have been expended, it was in the end pro ductive of consitl,-rable diminution in the expense. --That consideration had contributed to prodnet the inctease in the amount in the present Esti mates to which he haoheforealluded. Eve; y practi cable reduction had been attended to The works at Sheerness and Chatham had dune away the ex .peoditure to a much larger amount in the estu ... . , . . . blishments on the River. There remained one Point on which he wished to offer a few observa tions. It had been insinuated, in the disrUssion of, general questions- of our policy, that tha Go '. vent meat of the country 110 unheated a diSp ,, Si.• f time to neglect that important branch of the :tub. lie security—its n atura l an d anc i ent b u l wark, the I - Navy. He could see no ereitind for such an in -1 sinnation, for, nothing. had been omitted to f strengthen ,and Make,it available to the national . watle.. The number of out-pensioners of Greene . wich Hospital amounted to 35,000, the far greater proportion of whom were serviceable, and ready I to be employed in the 'public defence, wherever our ,security ..reqUited it. The establishment of safe roadsteads for our fleets, by which safety and prompniende in fitting them out were obtained,shew that there existed no grounds for any such feats. Jr the Committee looked to the efficieucy and dis patch, even in a time of peace, with which the last expedition on which the Navy was employed had been fitted out (Algiers), an efficiency that had attracted the acknoaledgernent of the gal lant and distinguished Commander, it was impos sible to asseit that any neglect was chargeable.---- It was perfectly trite that the period of peace was not the season for daring enterprises and brilliant achieVernents. But glories of another description presented themselves—by advancing the progress of science and of geographical improvements.— Many very - able officers were now employed in surveying coasts and seas either before an known, or It mightwhic h :lis t io l c i a e b, eiu l itith.ere:r:titfs,at.:iiit:ic,nit distinction a Ao s f, : ta e bi r li y : imperfeer. country to solve the problem so long desired , as to a Northern comm Atlan tic and Pacific (Oceans. These were the porsii;,. of Peace, but should other circumstances demand a vigorous exertion, he felt perfectly assured that this country wool(' then display the elastic power of her naval arm. He concluded with moving, that a sum not exceeding 2, - 489,1871. be granted for defraying the codlings , lixpences of the Navy for the year ISIB. Sir M. W. Min' Said, that he did not gene. rally object to the Estimates ; ' bad he felt any ob jection at first, the pet it'sal of the Eighth Report of the Cotinnittee of Finance had removed it. All he hoped was, that a Report containing such be neficial suggestions would not be unproductive of . public benefit—that it a °old not be allowed, like so many . other valuable Reports presented by Committee ,of that House, to remain altogether a dead letter. His object in then addressing the Committee, was simply to propOse, as an amend ment, a reduction of 20001. being the amount of the salaries of the two Junior Lords of the Ad miralty. It was in the recollection of the House, that during the last Session he had moved for the reduction of the number of Junior Lords of the Admiralty from six to four, as folly sufficient to carry on the service of the country in a period of peace. The argument opposed to that proposition was, that there was a great necessity for the exist ing Government to have the disposal of those offices, at the same time that thry cmistit tired a school of education for young Statesmen. Had he not himself beard such iirgiuncins stated in the Congruous House of Parliament, he would, hardly have be lieved it possible, that soeh an objection could have been urged with any hope of effect. In re gard to the.proposed education of young statesmen, he was of opinion, that in their course of studies they had ,no claim on the nation, and that if the bolding of the office was necessary for their pro. greys, they at 'least alionld be called epon to pay the Tax of their just ruction. The sum, it was true, was only 20001. bet in that small amount, the principle was the great object. What the pe culiar course of knowledge in which lie mind* of these you: gi statesmen were trained, he was not informed enough correctly to describe. He was willing, however, to adtei• that the Cemmittee lo , tl that night witnessed the progress of improvement in the Honourable Baronet (Sir G 11 - atrender). But he believed he saw opposite to hint, an Honourable Member (alluding, it was sup. posed, to Mr. Croker), connected with the Mali.. rally, who had applied his talents to literary pur suits, and had lately published a work, entitled " Stories for Young Children."--(t laugh).- e l it this work probably were comprehended the ele ments for these sticking Stattennen.—(A laugh)— He (Sir .M. Ridley) had the good fortune to pe ruse it, and lead, not svithoot a little sot wise, but certainly without conviction, that Charles the First was considered an excellent man and a good King. If he was not Inistaken, a very respectable publication, the Quartet ly Review, was also io. debted for most of its leading articles to its cone nection with the Admiralty. All these circutn staaces certainly promised well of this school of education, hut he notwithstanding could not agree in making the country pay the expence. He saw many Honourable Gentlemen opposite, who bad voted with him against the condonation of the Leather Tax. Surely, when they took from their Right Honourable Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, such a portion of the revenue, they ought at least to diminish the unnecessary claims upon it, and vote with hint in his amend. mem for the reduction of the 20001. Lord CASTLEEFAGH did not rise for the pug. pose of arguing the question, which had before been decided, upon the propriety of keepieg up the present number of Lords of the Admiralty. On the occasion which had been referred to, the question had been Nils' looked at in every point of view,; The Board was now as it had exited for more than a century nast ; and fewer Corn. missioners, when it Was ConSide.ed that some were wanted at the outpost, it did not appear to him would be sufficient. All the suggestions of the Committee of Finance bed been attended to. The Hon. Member had very pleasantly stated so much of the argument that bad been used in the former debate out the Admiralty Louis ; as served Iris purpose. He (Lord Castlereagh) was sure he could not state his share of it in the same pleasant manner, and should thiretore trust to the recollection of the House and sit down. Mr. Biomes could so far confirm the statement of his Noble Friend as to state that the Cony mittee of Finance had great reason to be satisfied with the economy introduced lets various depart , * clients, and with the attention paid to all the suggestions they had thought i: their duty to throw out. He had read that enorning a minute respecting . the Ordnance p.pArcuieut, former!,